Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse Data Sources March 26, 2014December 13, 20190 Overview The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. In the past, researchers analyzing data files were required to perform extensive analysis related to beneficiary matching, deduplication, and merging of the files in
DocGraph Database Data Sources March 26, 2014February 4, 20150 The DocGraph Edge data set contains very detailed information on referral patterns between CMS healthcare providers. The data can be used to understand referral patterns within any community in the United States. The data sets are very large and are structured for use in network analysis. Providers are identified by
Health Data All-Stars Data Sources March 26, 2014May 13, 20140 Health Data All-Stars is a directory of 50 prominent resources for health data at the federal, state and local levels housed on the Health Data Consortium’s website. To compile the directory, they spoke with leading health researchers, government officials, entrepreneurs, advocates and others to identify the health data resources that
CMS Geographic Variation Public Use File Data Sources March 25, 2014February 11, 20150 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed data that enables researchers and policymakers to evaluate geographic variation in the utilization and quality of health care services for the Medicare fee-for-service population. They have aggregated this data into a Geographic Variation Public Use File that has demographic,
Improve Your Healthcare Community! News June 13, 2013December 13, 20190 This site reflects our commitment to encourage communities to understand and improve their own care systems for elderly and disabled persons. Community leaders, including medical care providers, long-term services and supports providers, citizen groups, civic leaders, and public health officials, can ask for certain data about their own community, or use
PDF Download: MedPac Report, June 2004 Resource Library February 22, 2013February 22, 20130 PDF Download: Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare, June 2004 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Report to the Congress: New Approaches in Medicare, June 2004; This PDF contains the Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and Chapter five of the report: "Defining long-term care hospitals" (pgs.